Vettel is the first driver to bring up a century of laps today - and based on the rather full looking Ferrari pit wall, it seems the German is running a race simulation to boot.

Magnussen has bolted on a set of C4 soft tyres and gone for a run. He sets personal bests in every sector to move up to P8 with a 1m 17.672s.

The morning session ended with a red flag for Raikkonen, who stopped his Alfa Romeo out on track. He is already back up and running this afternoon, so clearly the offending issue was a quick fix.

Hulkenberg gets his account up and running with a rather sedate 1m 23.585s. Expect that time to tumble once Renault bolt on the softest rubber. This morning they gave Ricciardo some shorter runs late in the session, so they might do a similar programme this afternoon.

Mercedes call Hamilton back into the pits, where they proceed to do a practice pit stop. But then the five time world champion is lifted back onto trollies and rolled into the garage, indicating a long run rather than race simulation was the programme of action.

Magnussen improves - to a 1m 17.947s, still on his long run. That leaves just Kubica unable to get out of the 1m 18's, despite the pole running the fastest C5 compound tyre this morning.

Interestingly, Hamilton is running the prototype C3 rubber from Pirelli, and is on 13 laps and counting. Long run or race simulation? We will find out when he next pulls into the pits.

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